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"Washington Intends Russia’s Demise" Warns Paul Craig Roberts

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Submitted by Paul Craig Roberts,

Washington has no intention of allowing the crisis in Ukraine to be resolved. Having failed to seize the country and evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base, Washington sees new opportunities in the crisis.

One is to restart the Cold War by forcing the Russian government to occupy the Russian-speaking areas of present day Ukraine where protesters are objecting to the stooge anti-Russian government installed in Kiev by the American coup. These areas of Ukraine are former constituent parts of Russia herself. They were attached to Ukraine by Soviet leaders in the 20th century when both Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country, the USSR.

Essentially, the protesters have established independent governments in the cities. The police and military units sent to suppress the protesters, called “terrorists” in the American fashion, for the most part have until now defected to the protesters.

With Obama’s incompetent White House and State Department having botched Washington’s takeover of Ukraine, Washington has been at work shifting the blame to Russia. According to Washington and its presstitute media, the protests are orchestrated by the Russian government and have no sincere basis. If Russia sends in military units to protect the Russian citizens in the former Russian territories, the act will be used by Washington to confirm Washington’s propaganda of a Russian invasion (as in the case of Georgia), and Russia will be further demonized.

The Russian government is in a predicament. Moscow does not want financial responsibility for these territories but cannot stand aside and permit Russians to be put down by force. The Russian government has attempted to keep Ukraine intact, relying on the forthcoming elections in Ukraine to bring to office more realistic leaders than the stooges installed by Washington.

However, Washington does not want an election that might replace its stooges and return to cooperating with Russia to resolve the situation. There is a good chance that Washington will tell its stooges in Kiev to declare that the crisis brought to Ukraine by Russia prevents an election. Washington’s NATO puppet states would back up this claim.

It is almost certain that despite the Russian government’s hopes, the Russian government is faced with the continuation of both the crisis and Washington puppet government in Ukraine.

On May 1 Washington’s former ambassador to Russia, now NATO’s “second-in-command” but the person who, being American, calls the shots, has declared Russia to no longer be a partner but an enemy. The American, Alexander Vershbow, told journalists that NATO has given up on “drawing Moscow closer” and soon will deploy a large number of combat forces in Eastern Europe. Vershbow called this aggressive policy deployment of “defensive assets to the region.”

In other words, here we have again the lie that the Russian government is going to forget all about its difficulties in Ukraine and launch attacks on Poland, the Baltic States, Romania., Moldova, and on the central Asian states of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The dissembler Vershbow wants to modernize the militaries of these American puppet states and “seize the opportunity to create the reality on the ground by accepting membership of aspirant countries into NATO.”

What Vershbow has told the Russian government is that you just keep on relying on Western good will and reasonableness while we set up sufficient military forces to prevent Russia from coming to the aid of its oppressed citizens in Ukraine. Our demonization of Russia is working. It has made you hesitant to act during the short period when you could preempt us and seize your former territories. By waiting you give us time to mass forces on your borders from the Baltic Sea to Central Asia. That will distract you and keep you from the Ukraine. The oppression we will inflict on your Russians in Ukraine will discredit you, and the NGOs we finance in the Russian Federation will appeal to nationalist sentiments and overthrow your government for failing to come to the aid of Russians and failing to protect Russia’s strategic interests.

Washington is licking its chops, seeing an opportunity to gain Russia as a puppet state.

Will Putin sit there with his hopes awaiting the West’s good will to work out a solution while Washington attempts to engineer his fall?

The time is approaching when Russia will either have to act to terminate the crisis or accept an ongoing crisis and distraction in its backyard. Kiev has launched military airstrikes on protesters in Slavyansk. On May 2 Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Kiev’s resort to violence had destroyed the hope for the Geneva agreement on de-escalating the crisis. Yet, the Russian government spokesman again expressed the hope of the Russian government that European governments and Washington will put a stop to the military strikes and pressure the Kiev government to accommodate the protesters in a way that keeps Ukraine together and restores friendly relations with Russia.

This is a false hope. It assumes that the Wolfowitz doctrine is just words, but it is not. The Wolfowitz doctrine is the basis of US policy toward Russia (and China). The doctrine regards any power sufficiently strong to remain independent of Washington’s influence to be “hostile.” The doctrine states:

“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”

The Wolfowitz doctrine justifies Washington’s dominance of all regions. It is consistent with the neoconservative ideology of the US as the “indispensable” and “exceptional” country entitled to world hegemony.

Russia and China are in the way of US world hegemony. Unless the Wolfowitz doctrine is abandoned, nuclear war is the likely outcome.

 

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Tue, 05/06/2014 - 11:23 | 4731992 gcjohns1971
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With innumerable options why does Russia opt for the War option now?

The collapse of the Euro is continuing apace.

The Dollar is on the verge of collapse.

But all of that ceases to have meaning when people are worrying about nukes.

Why play the Warfare Card now?

It seems like a gross miscalculation.

 

As for Russia's recent successes - they seem to me to be mostly related to defaulting on  its debts in 1998.

You can print and spend a lot more money on your agenda when you are debt-free.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 19:48 | 4730218 kchrisc
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By the way, Alexander Vershbow is from Ashkenazi.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 20:01 | 4730261 Wahooo
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Wondered about his pedigree. The US/NAZI alliance has wanted Russia's pearls for years. I hope we drown.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 20:32 | 4730359 Ocean22
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For those who don't know the vast majority of " Jews " are from here.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 19:53 | 4730228 buzzsaw99
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bollocks. the usa ptb have done everything in their power to build china into an economic and military superpower.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 20:00 | 4730231 Yes We Can. But...
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How do you US 25-and-unders feel about all this, about your country, about your futures?

Hello?  Hello?

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 03:24 | 4731064 therearetoomany...
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Dude. shut the front door, Miley is twerking again.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 19:59 | 4730252 Sirius Wonderblast
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So far, the build up is about a dozen F16s , 4 Eurofarter Typhoons, and a few hundred squaddies of various creeds. A few ships in the Black Sea, all waiting to be sunk. Piss in the wind.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 20:58 | 4730429 needfiatforBBB
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had to downvote that. seems to me the US airforce has done historically well.  consider their military expenditures now-a-days and I would expect that to continue. 

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 20:01 | 4730263 Flying Wombat
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FALSE FLAG? Ukrainian Police Interactions On Film Raise Questions About Odessa Massacre

http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=148982

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 20:04 | 4730271 MortimerDuke
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True enough, PCR has been on this story since day one.  Unfortunately, he's had his head up his ass since the day before day one.  The reason to be anti-American on this issue has nothing to do with the Wolfowitz doctrine.  Hell, there's nothing the military industrial complex would love more than to have the US lose its hegemony.  Cold War 2.0 would mean all sorts of military budget-beefing.  Besides, the Obama administration risks losing its base over such a neo-con policy.  And nuclear war over the Ukraine?  Right.  Nobody in the president's cabinet would take issue with a nuclear solution to a conflict in a region 95% of Americans not only can't find on a map, but they can't find a map either.  Americans do not care.  The only reason the Obama administration has it wrong on this issue is that the Russian-speaking people in eastern Ukraine have valid reasons for exiting stage right.  The government in the Ukraine has been seriously dysfunctional for the better part of two decades.  They've had enough of criminal rule in the Ukraine and are willing to risk their futures by throwing in with criminal rule in Russia.  Ukraine would be best served by letting the east go, within reason, and focusing on installing a less criminal enterprise in Kiev.  And by the way, the ZH Putin-worship is a little nauseating.  You'd think the guy was some kind of criminal genius.  He's an international thug with the IQ of a reasonably intelligent labrador.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 22:48 | 4730727 Obaminator
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Thank you! CRIMINAL RUSSIA - Key observation.

Not that the US isnt Criminal...heck, we have BHO in office, its all down to who the heck is the LESSER of Evils anymore...

Ukraine: (The People) Either Pony up and be willing to DIE for your land, or STFU. Russian Ukrains: Figure out which side your on, and if Ukrain doesnt voluntarily donate land to Russia then MOVE OUT of the country like my amigos S of the US border move AWAY from their land...Imagine a US State being allowed to Joint Mexico - HAHAH Would NEVER EVER happen people - Think About It!

US: Ha - You want me tro believe Americans or the US Govt actually gives 2 sh!ts about Ukrain itself - No! - We might care about Energy or Power of Russia or whatever, but we dont care about Ukrain at all...so STAY THE F*** Out of the situation and let the Europeans who been calling us here in the US all sorts of things for 20+ years FIGHT THEIR OWN WARS REGARDLESS of the outcome. If Russia gets too far, sure, we can move back in and Kick some Ass, and this time France can adopt English as REQUIRED language class after we beat the Russians back to somewhere East of Germany...let the rest fall as it does.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 23:37 | 4730840 Volkodav
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useless talkings

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 05:03 | 4731110 dreadnaught
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you dickhead, are an NSA plant-why should we listen to you?  aha! WE DONT! lol

 

you get all your world education from the reading the back of breakfast cereal boxes.....people should have a min req IQ of 75 before posting here-work on it!

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 13:09 | 4732396 Obaminator
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Mmmmm Hmmmm...Riiiiight.

 

But thank you for the compliment all the same

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 23:35 | 4730837 Blood Spattered...
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ZH'ers are more intelligent than the average person on teh interwebz, but are sadly still dependent on the concept of dualism. There always has to be a 'good guy' and a 'bad guy'.  Putin is just as much a criminal as anyone in DC, and maybe has slightly less blood on his hands, but a thug nonetheless.

There are no good options.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 20:16 | 4730312 Kirk2NCC1701
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I submit that Russia has additional options to buy time it needs. E.g...

1. Enable Ukraine and its economy to keep sinking, until the Jackals in Kiev are overthrown.  Thus deny the US MIC the pretext for bigger budgets.

2. While #1 is happening, ramp the PR game, way, WAY up:  Go beyond RT or ZH.  Start buying Western media time and start bribing/blackmailing some prominenet media figures -- IOW, do what the NSA does to them already.  Insist on UN Peacekeepers coming to Ukraine.  Make the humanitarian crisis a UN problem, needing immediate action.

3. Keep working on economic ties with the EU, especially Germany, to keep the EurAsian shift on track.

4. Make friendly overtures to ME powers (beyond Iran), that they would continue to have protection from danger, if the US were to retreat.  This includes Israel and KSA - who are key.  And there is no reason why they could not diversify their wealth or currency into other regional currencies (EUR, CNY) for their oil.

5. Keep working with China and Central Asian powers on BARTER programs that avoid the USD, thus accelerating the GRC status of the Petro-Dollar.

All these simply ensure the preservation of the global balance of power, rathen than the Wolfwovitz Doctrine being progagated or succeeding.  If Russia falls, so does China.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 20:21 | 4730322 moneybots
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"The Russian government is in a predicament. Moscow does not want financial responsibility for these territories but cannot stand aside and permit Russians to be put down by force. The Russian government has attempted to keep Ukraine intact, relying on the forthcoming elections in Ukraine to bring to office more realistic leaders than the stooges installed by Washington."

 

Crimea is part of Russia now, not Ukraine.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 20:49 | 4730403 Yardfarmer
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Intensive study of history reveals that the incredibly infernally complex machinations of major conflicts go far deeper than even the eminently credible and commendable analysis of such intellects as Mr. Paul Craig Roberts. While not attempting to presume any greater understanding of the of the arcane forces which are pulling the levers and animating the puppets behind this paticular Punch and Judy show witnessed by us largely clueless groundlings with our roars of approval or reproaches of indignation, it is advisable to understand that the scope and breadth of this only apparently suddenly ignited conflagration is well beyond the scope of most human comprehension. witness all those supposedly crackpot theories bandied about on the fringes of the internet concerning the origins of the man known as Barack Obama, one of which placed him in Moscow several years before his emergence on the American politcal stage with intimations at that time that he would someday be president of the United States. Consider the famous interview of KGB agent Yuri Bezemov by G Edward Griffin in 1984 and the implications of a general and incremental subversion of the west by communist agents over a period of several decades. Another piece of the puzzle was set in place with the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913 realizing ont of the primary tenets of the Communist Manifesto- the essential establishment of a central bank and a corresponding Income Tax collection agency as envisioned by V. I. Lenin., the subsequent and following October revolution itself funded by Jacob Shiff through the agency of Kuhn-Loeb which funnelled $20 million dollars to Trotsky living in luxury, ensconced in a five star hotel in New Yok City before his voyage to London and on to St. Petersburg and his infamous rendezvous with Lenin after the latter's arrival at the Finland station to set in motion the events leading to the abdication and murder of the Romanovs. Was any of this common knowledge at the time? Certainly not. Another event which has maintained a puzzling resilience over the past century is the so called "Miracle of the Sun" at Fatima, Portugal, October 13, 1917, the culmination of a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to three children in Portugal, during the course of which, certain prophetic utterances were confided, most famously in the three secrets of Fatima. The explicit command of Virgin was the need for the "consecration of Russia to my Sacred Heart" by the papacy along with the all assembled bishops of the Catholic church across the world, in the absence of which it was promised that entire nations would be annihilated and the Russian flag would be unfurled over St. Peter's in the Vatican itself.   

 

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 21:55 | 4730583 shovelhead
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I'd toss in some reptoid aliens and a couple of hitch-hiking Hooter's waitresses to the script before you pitch it.

Smells like a summer blockbuster.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 21:25 | 4730499 hangemhigh77
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They are real War Pigs

http://youtu.be/jtnC28jAA9k

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 21:35 | 4730523 shovelhead
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I dunno.

Seems a bit ambitious and a bit far fetched that The Psychos think they could topple Putin at home and get a Russian lapdog that was neutered enough to shove dollars up it's ass.

Then again, these clowns have gotten away with literal murder so many times that going for broke is not out of the question.

Being a rather phlegmatic sort myself, I would consider going toe to toe with a guy who rolled the tanks through S. Ossetia without a blink under NATOs nose, a somewhat risky proposition.

And I wouldn't bet a nickle on him being concerned in the least about his public image abroad. This is a guy you threaten at your peril.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 22:36 | 4730700 Obaminator
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Finally someone with some reason.

America aint perfect, but nobody on this site will move from the US to Russia...and each one of us know why.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 11:04 | 4731923 gcjohns1971
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Obaminator,

Russians under 30 do not remember that the State Media cannot be trusted.  They were children, or not even born, when the USSR fell.

A lot of Russians over 50 want their pensions raised so badly that they have forgotten that the State Media cannot be trusted.  They will forget everything, and support anything, to get another scrap from the Oligarchs table.

The Russian propaganda is promoting insane hysteria that a five-year-old should be able to see through.

The Western propaganda says little, and then attempts to direct people's attention somewhere else - like Miley Cirus, or the Kardashians, or Global Warming, etc.

I understand who is fighting whom, and what they hope to gain.

But the tone of the propaganda on both sides is so low, so stupid, so transparently unrealistic that it insults the idea of human intelligence that one could believe it.

I don't know whether those who apparently do believe it are themselves propgandists, who only pretend to believe, or whether they are too stupid to separate from the chimpanzees.

What I think is TERRIBLY IRONIC, is that by making War Putin will actually be distracting people from their dissatisfactions with Washington.

He has forgotten that people are the key terrain, and that the boogeyman who is shooting at them is always of more immediate concern than the boogeyman who is robbing them.

If humanity is this stupid, then lets just get to the endpoint, and launch the nukes now.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 13:12 | 4732402 Obaminator
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But their Parents DO...and I happen to know a VERY large Russian Community who moved AWAY from Russia...they Now say "The US is beginning to Act like the Russia we moved away from".

I ask "So would you move back to Russia"

They say (while spitting whatever is in ther mouth out) "HA, Are you Kidding me...this Putin is KGB and is Not Good, He has Soviet Mentality, there still no place like US in world"

BTW - They had several chances to move back to Russia and the area, they turned it down, and are now very happy with that decision seeing what a Tyrant Putin is.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 21:48 | 4730562 Rising Sun
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Exactly.  The US wants Russia chopped up into pieces.

 

After this is complete, it will be simple to derail a threat - just create a conflict with a neighbor and watch the shit hit the fan.

 

India and China will remain.  India is political gridlock and China has few natural resources.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 22:34 | 4730697 Obaminator
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Yeah, and Russia wants the US ground into pieces.

Meanwhile, the practially Russian-Controlled Belerus President, will KILL people who oppose him, AND their families. Yeah...baby.

 

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 01:13 | 4730967 Obamanism
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The US President, will KILL people, With Drones.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 10:48 | 4731871 gcjohns1971
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Right.

The US wants Russia Chopped in pieces so much that it waited throughout the 1990's and only moved now, when Russia became stronger.

How long have you been on drugs?

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 11:10 | 4731944 gcjohns1971
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"China has few natural resources."

This is an example of a statement so stupid, so ignorant, that expecting someone to believe it requires is expecting them to be dumber than a chihuahua.

JAPAN has few natural resources.

China has a lot of resources, particularly HUMAN RESOURCES.  But they have many other resources as well.

If we are so dumb, how would we even read this idiotic statement, Brain-Boy?

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 21:50 | 4730568 yrbmegr
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Nice op-ed.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 22:33 | 4730693 Obaminator
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Thats RIIIIIIIGHT...The Russiansm especially Putin are friggin Angels and AmeriKA is soooo horrible that 99% of the people posting on this sight wont move from the US to these Other outstanding places to live...Like...Russia.

Meanwhile, my wifes family, including herself, who moved FROM Russia in 1990 know ALL TO WELL the game Putin and his KGB cronies are playing, and they say HE is a monster and HE wants his Old Soviet Empire back.

But then again..what the heck would peolpe who moved FROM russian, know anything ABOUT Russia.

As much as I appreciate ZH and many contributors...pices like this make me step back and remember 90% of whats writt4en anywhere is OPINION, facts are facts, and the rest is one persons perception vs another...the fact is, if you go live in Russia, you will soon learn just how free you still have it here in the EVIL AmeriKA.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 23:20 | 4730809 IridiumRebel
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Let me simplify things. We are pushing Russia into a corner and Russia has FUCKING NUKES. I give two shits about who wants what to happen or whomever to win. NUKES WILL BE SHOT AND SHITLOADS DIE. That's the crux. The rest is conjecture. This isn't the NFL. This is heading towards nuclear war. Get it?

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 10:47 | 4731862 gcjohns1971
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Russia is also pushing Europe into a corner on the Energy issue.

When two assholes fight you don't have to make friends with one of them.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 12:44 | 4732278 Raging Debate
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Obaminator - As an American I agree. I do not want to live in Russia. But I am considering Chile or Nicaragua. Why keep paying taxes to a government that can't stop 19 men with boxcutters from killing 3,000 of my countrymen while political insiders get rich of overseas ventures, NOT doing there only job which is a protection racket?

Why get robbed through inflation and taxation to a government more interested in it's Chinese investments through multinationals than the American citizen. Whoever you are, we got a raw deal buddy. As for me, I encourage all here on multiple occasions at ZH to stay politically neutral or one could find himself cannon fodder for an oligarch be it Western or Eastern.

Conflict is always about land. Minerals such as oil exist within them. I understand larger nations must compete for energy resources. However, the US is supporting the EU's interests with Ukraine/Russia situation. Not my countrymen. Funding China with my tax dollars to hollow it out faster is something I will never forget. I can forgive, we are all imperfect but that doesn't mean I will continue living here and supporting traitors. Such can kill me or indefinately detain me just by calling them that with MY FUCKING tax dollars. Your government shilling means your a traitor to this nation also because it no longer does its primary job or protection racket for a population through rule of law.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 13:20 | 4732436 Obaminator
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I know people who moved to Costa Rica and Argentina...they were back in the US within 10 months.

a few years ago tons of people were saying "Im considering moving to New Zealand or Australia" - look at the gun rights now over there.

We are the last stand...were going down the wrong path. but were the last stand left. Thus the lesser of the Evils.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 23:49 | 4730858 laomei
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Russia finally figured out that the US is NOT trying to be a friend and never has been.  Russia finally figured out that the US endgame is to dismantle and destroy Russia leaving it in a state of perpetual crisis.  So, Russia is playing the same stupid games the US does to great amusement.  Exercising those fun "international rights" wherein it sails around the US sensitive areas, spy flights, etc. etc.  Watching the US cry like little girls over it when they get their same crap handed back to em.  Hilarious.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 13:21 | 4732447 Obaminator
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Id really laugh my ass off to see what you would end up being if RUSSIA or China was to rule the world...og wait...you wouldnt be allowed to write such a post, and youd probably be forced to work on a brick wall in Siberia for little to no pay as your "contribution" to society.

 

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 16:29 | 4730940 Radical Marijuana
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The "Wolfowitz doctrine" is criminal insanity.

The "Wolfowitz doctrine" is an aspect of the international banksters' agenda, which included preparing the way to consolidate their global hegemony through events like staging the inside job, false flag attacks on 9/11/2001. The "Wolfowitz doctrine" is a continuation of the basic debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits, program of the internaitonal banksters. It includes deliberately starting genocidal wars, outside of NATO, along with preparing to impose democidal martial law inside of NATO countries, with, of course, the USA being first and foremost of those countries which carry out those genocidal wars, along with the USA being the country in which more than any other there will finally be provoked democidal martial law, after the divide and conquer strategy there works through to provoking insane violence between the different groups within the USA.

Of course, nothing in the "Wolfowitz doctrine" seriously considers the threats posed by the FACTS that the weapons have become trillions of times more powerful. The most crucial aspect of the criminal insanities represented by the "Wolfowitz doctrine" is to deliberately discount and disregard those FACTS. (One aspect of that were the changes, since the 1990s, for NATO to start regarding depleted uranium weapons as being acceptable, instead of rightly regarding those as amounting to perpetual war crimes to deploy.)

While the banksters' basic systems were always debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits, it is politically impossible for them to publicly admit that their systems have generated irreconcilable debt insanity numbers, while, at the same time, for them to covertly recognize that provoking death insanities, as the response to those runaway debt insanity situations, is covertly treated as an acceptable attitude, as a guide for their future activities. Thus, the "Wolfowitz doctrine" symbolizes the degree to which the ruling classes have become criminally insane, while there appears to be  nothing which can actually stop them from continuing that behavior, until globalized systems are pushed through severe social storms and psychotic breakdowns.

Although I agreed with Paul Craig Roberts' analysis, my opinion is that things are actually way worse than that! While I tend to admire Roberts for not pulling his punchs, I believe that he, like everyone else, can not fully comprehend what it means to have civilization develop runaway criminal insanities, which are expressed by its ruling classes, while those that they rule over are basically stuck inside the same frame of reference, which prevents those who are being ruled over from understanding how bad things are, and so, they are simultaneously refusing to understand how any realistic resolutions to the problems must necessarily be in the same ball park frame of reference of how bad things really are.

We are operating within combined money/murder systems, whereby the debt controls operate through the maximum possible frauds, and the death controls operate through the maximum possible deceits. The ruling classes are manifesting maximal criminal insanities, while those they rule over share in the same basic bullshit frame of reference, because the various controlled opposition groups tend to agree that there should not be any death controls, while the ruling classes assert that too, while actually covertly causing the most criminally insane death controls to be implemented. The controlled opposition groups in those who are ruled over tend to agree that there ought not be any murder systems at all, while the ruling classes actually operate real murder systems which they suppress the facts about, as well as also deny should exist.

The social pyramid systems of Neolithic styles of civilization have always been based on backing up lies with violence, which relatively recently have become electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs, which are trillions of times more capable and powerful than ever before in known human history. That has driven BOTH the ruling classes, and those they rule over, to become criminally insane TOGETHER!

The "Wolfowitz doctrine" is an insane attempt to consolidate a global hegemony of enforced frauds, in order to maintain the debt slavery systems with more wars based on deceits. Meanwhile, it is practically impossible for human beings to have any saner ways to operate murder systems, that back up monetary systems, not only because the established systems were built on the foundation of their history of the maximum possible deceits and frauds, but also because the controlled opposition groups who are "against" that deliberately refuse to discuss how to provide better death controls, to back up better debt controls.

Therefore, the established systems are attempting to consolidate a globalized agenda of enforced frauds, while none of the significant opposition provides enough deeper levels of radical truths, but rather, continues to operate within the same bullshit frame of reference, which is based upon accepting at face value the false fundamental dichotomies, and related impossible ideals, that the biggest banksters and bullies originally promoted, as the mainstay of their own kind of professional lies and immaculate hypocrisies, as their ways to advance their on-going debt slavery with wars based on deceits.

There are at least two deeper turns which should be taken towards more radical truths: the first is to face the facts that the debt slavery has become debt insanity, while the wars based on deceits to back that debt slavery up are also on the verge of runaway death insanities, to match the runaway debt insanities. The second is to understand that there MUST necessarily be some kind of money/murder systems, in which debt controls are backed up by death controls. TOGETHER, the ruling classes, and those they rule over, form an overall integrated social and political system which is collectively quite completely criminally insane, because not only are the established systems operated through lies backed by violence, but also the necessary existence of some sort of systems doing that is deliberately suppressed and denied by both the rulers AND those they rule over.

Our entire civilization is based on the foundation of organized lies, operating robberies, which systems have been amplified by technologies which became trillions of times more powerful. That has resulted in our entire civilization becoming criminally insane, to degrees which are many orders of magnitude more than can currently be comprehended. Since our actual debt controls operate through the maximum possible frauds, while those are backed up by death controls operating through the maximum possible deceits, and the controlled opposition to those established systems are just as entrenched in the same basic bullshit world view as was promoted by the biggest bullies, and therefore, the controlled opposition never does anything else than provide relatively good, but still superficial, analysis of those problems, followed by impossible "solutions" which continue to be based on the same basic ideas that the biggest bullies, or banksters, hide their actual frauds and murders behind, the entire system is several orders of magnitude more criminally insane than can coherently be expressed, at least in ways that most people could currently understand.

The "Wolfowitz doctrine" is the result of thousands of years of social success based upon being able to enforce frauds, which is attempting to complete that process, in the form of global government that will consolidate that control of being able to enforce frauds. That the atomic power, and the electronics, etc., which are available to enforce those frauds, have become trillions of times BIGGER than ever before, continues to be regarded with attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance, that amounts to runaway criminal insanity.

The ruling classes hide their debt slavery backed by wars based on deceits behind false fundamental dichotomies, and related impossible ideals, while the controlled opposition groups in those they rule over may somewhat reveal more superficial levels of truth about what is really happening, but never engage enough in the deeper realities regarding those combined money/murder systems to actually provide better ways to resolve chronic, and dramatically intensifying, political problems, other than by repeating platitudes based on impossible ideals, or spouting magical words, about how we should have no such systems at all, which is the same old biggest bullies' or banksters' bullshit social stories, which they developed to enable them to hide what they were really doing behind. By and large, almost all of the controlled opposition groups representing factions of those who are ruled over subscribe to the same sets of criminally insane absurdities that the ruling classes do.

Thousands of years of success in warfare based on deceit, and then, hundreds of years of success in economics based on fraud, is the foundation of our current civilization. The degree of that success travels all the way through and through not only the ruling classes, but also through those they rule over. THUS, THE "WOLFOWITZ DOCTRINE" IS CRIMINAL INSANITY, THAT IS MANIFESTING INSIDE OF AN OVERALL CIVILIZATION THAT IS CRIMINALLY INSANE.

SINCE WE OPERATE OUR POLITICAL ECONOMY THROUGH THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE FRAUDS, WHILE THAT TAKES PLACE INSIDE OF OUR HUMAN ECOLOGY, WHICH OPERATES THROUGH THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE DECEITS, THEREFORE, OUR ENTIRE CIVILIZATION IS CRIMINALLY INSANE, AND THE CONTROLLED OPPOSITION GROUPS WITHIN THOSE WHO ARE RULED OVER SHARE THOSE BASIC ATTITUDES OF CRIMINAL INSANITY JUST AS MUCH AS DO THE RULING CLASSES.

Wed, 05/07/2014 - 02:00 | 4735050 autonomos
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I totally agree with you and all your posts. But please do not forget that entropy is a chemistry / thermodynamics principle only. Not a electrical / mecanical / gravitational / etc concept. So no honest scientist endorse it as a global truth about the whole universe. I don't think that scientist do understand it backwards. Entropy principle is valid for energy systems (engines etc). (Honestann too seems to forget that). To sum it up: scientists do not claim anything and the rest of sheeple do not give a shit... I think we should discuss more thoroughly the individual salvation, which merges "ancient mysticism" with "post-modern science", in my words: mysticism and science insitinct.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 01:27 | 4730981 Obamanism
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The Georgia  "Invasion" of 08.08.08 was another false flag done by the west. This happened at the start of the China Olympics as a backdrop. This attack started with the Sochi Olympics as a back drop.

The reasons the "NATO" back forces where stopped by the Russians was the Russians moved up battlefield tactical nuclear weapon, Nato back forces had poor supply routes and the Citizens did not support the conflict. This was the west military prodding the Russian military to see how they re-act and to perfect the strategy and shake out any unseen issues.

Now the west have learned from their mistakes and have picked an area where the supply routes can be protected and have used the ethnic mixture in the Ukraine to have a "citizen" led conflict.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 10:45 | 4731854 gcjohns1971
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The Russian Army invasion of Georgia in 2008 was a WESTERN FALSE FLAG?

So, how did the Western False-Flag people get Putin to go along with the False Flag?

How did they get Putin to explain to Russia that it was Russia's invasion 'to protect ethnic Russians'? 

How did the West make Puting explain to Russians why he was doing what he was doing?

 

I am not saying that the West wouldn't do a false flag if they could.  But these are legitimate questions.

FURTHERMORE, if the West is so powerful that it can use Putin as a hand-puppet (controlling his thoughts and actions) then why should we believe that you are not also being controlled?

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 01:29 | 4730983 Bemused Observer
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Putin is no angel, but the US needs to get its ass handed to it.

Seriously, there are some testosterone-soaked egos that REALLY need to be humbled. And there are some Americans who need to be taught that they DON'T own the whole fucking world. And that a lot of the world would LOVE to see that happen.

The last "modern war" fought on this soil was back in the 1800's. We have never lived through having our cities bombed and reduced to rubble. It's real easy to fight your wars in someone ELSE'S back yard when you get to go home to your unbombed country and pontificate...

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 10:39 | 4731836 gcjohns1971
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And you think killing some middle class boys and girls will humble Obama? Or McCain?

How does that work, exactly?

Or would you just like to see a nuke go off in a US city?

You are aware, that there would then be no cities left anywhere, right?

Demanding blood if your political views are not enacted is ALWAYS WRONG NO MATTER WHO DOES IT.

ENFORCING YOUR VIEWS ON OTHERS AT GUNPOINT IS WRONG. WRONG WHEN THE USG PROPOSES IT, AND DOES IT.  AND ALSO WRONG WHEN YOU PROPOSE IT, OR DO IT.

 

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 13:23 | 4732454 Obaminator
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Good points. Thank you.

 

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 14:00 | 4732624 Bemused Observer
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I didn't say that with joy. There's no schadenfrued there. And I never "demanded blood".

But we ARE where we ARE. Because there are people in charge who are FUCKING INSANE. And it is THEY who are bringing us to this point. While WE sit here and engage in our own petty squabbles and allow those leaders to do what they do. Our policies, over many years, have brought us here. The people who want to lead us into war are the ones that will be killing those middle class boys and girls, and causing nukes to go off in our cities.

A good drubbing on a smaller scale might PREVENT the worst from happening. And being knocked off that "America Rules!" pedestal we're on might have the effect on our national psyche that is needed to bring us down to earth and realize it isn't ALL about US.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 01:34 | 4730987 Ocean22
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/15/is-putin-being-lured-into-a-trap/

There’s no sense talking to people who don’t want peace. It just makes them look like they are being sincere, when they’re not. Obama and Co. don’t want peace. They want regime change. They want to weaken and dismember Russia. They want to reduce Moscow’s influence over energy-dependent states in Europe by disrupting the flow of gas through Ukraine. And they want to create a justification for carrying out their imperial agenda, which means they need to make Putin look like a dangerous aggressor. The coup government’s crackdown on ethnic Russians in Donetsk and Kharkiv could lead to a Russian intervention which would provide the justification that Washington is looking for. However painful it is for Putin to watch Russian speaking Ukrainians get beaten and perhaps killed by Nazi thugs and foreign mercenaries dressed up as Ukrainian Security Forces, he should avoid sending in the troops. It’s a trap.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 02:28 | 4731021 zipit
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Worth re-read (or initial read):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine#Russian_threat
(and the entire page).

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 02:41 | 4731029 damicol
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The time is fast approaching when real Americans will be able to make their views felt.

It is when the army is sending conscription sergeants  round to every house  to sign your sons up to to getting killed in eastern Europe and instead of filling in a thousand page form and signing his life away and  subjecting yourself and  everyone  in the house down to the dog to a strip body cavity search and spy cameras installed in every room and every pc and cellphone taken away for patriotic vetting, you shoot the motherfucker between the eyes and burn the stinking carcass in a pit.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 03:41 | 4731081 redwater
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"Impeachment" is a word that needs to be brought up every single day. In as many converstations as possible.

Time for Americans to do what they hoped Russia would do - Stand up to our rogue government.

Waiting till the elections is too long to change guard. The current elites will grow ever more frantic, desperate and dangerous by then.

 

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 05:04 | 4731118 AnAnonymous
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This good 'american' article is a pile of cheap propaganda as 'americans' know to deliver.

Washington, Russia. Funny. Here, that 'american' propagandist, as so often with 'americans' totally reverse the part.

He dissociates the current stage of decisions from the US People (middle classers who make the elections) when this project is wanted by WeThePeople aka the 'american' middle class.

He also attributes as the target the whole set of Russia. Where in fact, the project is aimed at Moscow first and all.

You could not do more.

In reality, it is 'America' vs Moscow.

And that 'american' propagandist changes it into Washington vs Russia.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 10:25 | 4731775 gcjohns1971
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You, sir, are an imbecile.

The problem is not that you are anti-american.  The problem is that you are stupid.

If the American middle class had any say whatsoever over what the US Gov't does then TARP or TALF - which transferred nearly $2 Trillion from the middle class to the banks, and which was opposed by 95% of the population - would never have happened.

The realization that the USG is out of control has dawned on many, at this point.  But what to do about it is not yet clear to most.

A war with Russia will only make people set aside those questions until the war is over.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 05:09 | 4731120 AnAnonymous
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Such a big pile.

'Americans' do not see new opportunities. This 'american', once again, feigns to ignore that 'americans' usually follow the same procedure.

Following the procedure shows that 'americans' never expected to wrestle Ukraine out of Russia's grip in one swoop.

Usually, 'americans' take several stages to achieve a result. Stages that are monetized.

There are no now opportunities here, but the opportunities that are when it goes along with the plan.

And that is what is happening now.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 06:07 | 4731140 cape_royds
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It's not about Putin being a good guy or a bad guy.

It's about us having some sort of balance-of-power in world affairs.

I don't support Russia in the Ukraine crisis because I like Putin, or because I would vote for him if I were Russian, or whatever.

I support Russia in Ukraine because the ambitions of the USA and its allies need to be checked.

Since the end of the Cold War, the USA and its allies have ended up going on a bit of a rampage. Mark the changes on a map. Look at the invasions, the occupations, all the bases. It's unmistakeable. Elites in the West are acting like they want to rule and own the world.

This must stop.

I would rather that the people in the USA or other Western countries would stop their governments themselves, but that's just not happening.

And before you ask, let me tell you that if the world faced an unchecked rampant power in China or Russia or Lesotho or wherever, I would be cheering on whatever countries would be trying to constrain them.

Balance of power is stressful, but it beats the shit out of having some stupid empire trying to run everything.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 09:50 | 4731535 gcjohns1971
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I agree about constraining their power.

But you can to it quicker, more effectively, and with less bloodshed by doing it without Armies.

Russian power stands on its Army.

Not so the west.

The West's power stands currently on its Banking system.  That banking system is vulnerable right now.  And, as it happens, it is also a very exploitative and unjust system.

The formula for bringing it down is simple.

Exchange dollars (or Euros) for Gold.

This will work because the banks are massively  leveraged - which is to say the system is counting the same actual reserve assets multiple times - and amongst the key reserve assets is Gold.  

When you draw down their leveraged reserve assets - each of which is leveraged at multples (meaning they've sold the same object multiple times) - you geometrically increase the probability they will collapse.

Collapse is not optional for banks.  Collapse is what happens when two entities simultaneously demand the same asset.  When that happens the bank is revealed to not have what it pretends to  have, an everyone who has wealth in the bank tries to get it out.

Fractional Reserve Banks are like a car dealer that sells the same car to multiple people.  They can manage use of the car for a while by controlling the 10 owners' access to it such that none of the 10 want it at the same time. 

That way the bank can pretend it has sold 10 cars to 10 people rather than one car to 10 people

But when any two owners want to use the same car at the same time it becomes obvious that the bank doesn't have what it pretends.  The result is all the 'car owners' try to ensure that THEY will get the car (and not one of the other nine) - and the bank collapses.

Buying Gold collapses the banks leverage, and turns the source of their power against them.  It makes the bank try to juggle the same car amongst more 'owners'.  And the more 'owners' per car, the more likely two will demand it at the same time.

But the point of collapse, it should be understood, is a psychological one - it is the REALIZATION that there is only one car, and not ten.  And to be frank, KNOWING the truth and REALIZING - meaning acknowledging it - are two different things.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 07:23 | 4731220 esum
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i thought bendoverbama and putin had a secret deal

ukraine is just part of the play..... obumbler doesn't miss a golf round or a chance to minlge with honkeywood... michelle is a fashionista and obama is a celebrity.... beng pres is so gauche...good night's sleep and speech prep take precedent over 4 dead men...so self important

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 09:18 | 4731488 gcjohns1971
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PCR's hostility to the USG sometimes overrides his common sense.

His "massive troop buildup" claim requires some support - and that support is lacking.

Are 600 troops based in Italy, but training in the Baltics a "massive troop build-up'?

That's 1 troop for every 1,000 troops that Russia has deployed.  That is the great threat?

Let's assume no, because to assume that 600 troops are threatening is ridiculous.  Let's assume by 'massive' he means 'a heavy armored force that could face the Russians'.

Where are the troops?  And, more importantly, how would  you know?

The US force of tanks is in Texas, Kentucky, Kansas, and Colorado.  To move them you would need massive trains to transport them to the ports.

Has anyone seen those trains?

Tanks are very heavy for the size.  An M1 tank weighs 72 short tons, or 144,000 pounds.  Compare that to a typical container - about 5,000 for the container, and up to 10,000 for what is in it for a total of 15,000.  A heavy division will consist of hundreds of tanks.  And for every tank there will be several other armored personnel carriers, etc.   And for every APC there will be a whole bunch of trucks to carry the repair parts, fuel, etc for the tanks (tanks rattle themselves apart - and require A LOT of maintenance).

Tanks are TEN TIMES AS HEAVY as what commercial transport is accustomed to carrying.  They require a large number of ships to move.  And the ships have to be somewhat specialized to handle the weight, with reinforced decks, heavier crane mounting points, etc.

A 'massive troop build up' would require 10 or 12 such ships for each Division.  And there would need to be at least five or six Divisions - MINIMUM ASSUMING MASSIVE EUROPEAN SUPPORT.  Without MASSIVE Euro support you'd need even more Divisions.  So, you are talking about HUNDREDS of specialized Roll-On Roll-Off ships - or dozens making multiple trips.

Do you see those ships in ports (Newport news, New Orleans, Savanah, etc)?

Then they have to arrive at European ports.  

Has anyone seen hundreds of specialized RORO ships arrive?

All the same factors apply for the transport to move them to Eastern Europe.

Has anyone seen these trains?

And, like in 2003, you would see thousands of 'farewell' parties around military bases around the country.

Has anyone seen that?

No.  And you won't see it anytime soon.

You won't see it because too many forces are still committed to Iraq and Afghanistan to make it possible.

No matter how machiavelian Washington may be, they still have to follow the laws of physics and meet the contsraints of logistics.

Ukraine is an EU gambit for energy supplies.  The smoke is in the air to prevent people from seeing who is doing what. 

Yes, the CIA is involved - but they are late to the party, as they were in Libya, and in Syria.  And that fact should be readily apparent by the Administration's largely incompetent responses to these events.

If they were the instigators, they would have been prepared, not reactive and uncoordinated.

Tue, 05/06/2014 - 10:30 | 4731799 gcjohns1971
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"No matter how machiavelian Washington may be, they still have to follow the laws of physics and meet the contsraints of logistics."

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When someone has a problem with the above statement, their problem is with reality, not with me.

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